Zhu Xi Ecological Ethics And Its Contemporary Value

With the passage of time, the increasingly prominent environmental problemsshow that the human society is facing the serious ecological crisis, ecologicalcivilization has been on the rise, as a new civilization and triggered a profoundthinking about the theory of ecological civilization. Sought the path of sustainabledevelopment, the Chinese traditional ecological ethics caused the attention of scholarsboth at home and abroad with the emphasis on wisdom, and gained manyenlightenments. Zhu xi as a master of ancient Chinese Confucianism, he from thepoint of view of the universe ontology has carried out demonstration from the thoughtof "benevolence" in Confucianism, and establish a set of Confucianism as the Pope,fusion theory system of Buddha, the old thought, to a positive and profound influenceon later ages. On the basis of predecessors’ research, this article tried from thefollowing several aspects:Begin from research methods, the previous scholars mostly focus on the study ofzhu’s education thought and the system of science, this article from the ecologicalethics thought of Zhu Xi, in order to enrich the research contents of China’s ecologicalethics thought; Secondly from the research content, in order to "law of all things","taichi","benevolence" of the former, the order of the "poor" make informed decisions onzhu xi’s connotation of ecological ethics, one by one as the breakthrough point,meaning of zhu xi’s ecological ethics thought of ecological ethics and eventually tozhu xi the contemporary value; Finally in the sense, zhu xi’s ecological ethics thoughtand the current status of the construction of ecological civilization in our country, inorder to provide reference for the development of China’s ecological ethics.Were divided into three chapters in this article, from three aspects of zhu xi’secological ethics thought respectively carried on the thorough carding andinterpretation. The first chapter describes the zhu xi, the basis of ecological ethicsthought form and produce including the zhu xi time the theory source of socialhistorical background and its thoughts. No one thought of the social and historicalconditions of the time, zhu xi’s ecological ethics thought it is in the southern song dynasty blighted, turbulent political background, the frequent natural disasters and toavoid the effects of the war for a long time, human survival depends on the seriousdestruction of ecological environment, causing inconvenience to people’s productionlife, the life at the time of zhu xi and other people with lofty ideals began to realisethat people must improve the attention to the natural environment, on the basis ofrespecting nature change nature, on this basis, the mix of zhu xi the thought ofConfucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and other predecessors, began to set up a love life,emphasizes the harmonious development of human and natural ecological ethicalsystem.The second chapter discusses the connotation of zhu xi’s ecological ethicsthought. Zhu xi in succession on the basis of predecessors’ thought, to dig deepecological ethics, and expounds the comprehensive. First of all, from the perspectiveof ontology, think that the origin of all things is "reason", everything is producedunder the leading of "truth", thus the universe origin have a whole understanding;Secondly on the basis of science to have the further understanding of the universe, hethinks that "tai chi" is the real connotation of "truth", and the so-called "tai chi" is avery good reason, emphasize from the viewpoint of love all give more respect andlove for nature life; Again from the perspective of axiology, advocate a kind of"benevolence" of the former ecological values, think human ethics should be extendedto nature, advocating the harmony between human and nature. Finally, from theperspective of practice, on the concrete method, establish the methodology of "poorRichard" make informed decisions, and the ultimate goal to Ming good and even love.The last chapter is the evaluation value of zhu xi’s ecological ethics, from zhuxi’s historical influence of ecological ethics thought and contemporary value twoaspects are summarized. Emphasized the ecological ethics thought of zhu xi’ssignificance of ecology theory, and combined with the current problems existing inthe construction of ecological civilization and the status quo analysis of the modernvalue of zhu xi’s ecological ethics thought.From the "way" philosophy of ontology, to discusses the ethics of "justice""human" thought, to the ecological ethics thought of renewing the "heaven", we can find that zhu xi about ecological ethics thinking is very clear of the track, the corecontent of the ecological ethics thought is worthy of reference for the world to thecritical and inheritance, this to a certain extent, can make up for the inadequacy ofmodern ecological ethics.